Using Help

Getting Help

Choose Window Help from the Help menu, click the Help button on the toolbar, or press Ctrl+h to display help for the current window:

Navigate to the Contents tab to display online help for any of the Oracle E-Business Suite products.

Note: You can also choose Oracle Applications Library from the Help menu.

Click on a product name to display the list of top-level topics in that product's online documentation.

Click on a topic of interest.

Navigate to the Search tab to find specific Oracle E-Business Suite information. Simply enter your search criteria in the text field and then press Go. For more search options click on the Advanced Search link.

Searching For Help

You can perform a search to find the Oracle E-Business Suite help information you want.

Choose Window Help from the Help menu or click the Help button on the toolbar.

Navigate to the Search tab, enter your search criteria in the text field, then press Go to perform a simple search. For more search options click on the Advanced Search link.

A list of titles, ranked by relevance and linked to the documents, is returned from your search.

Click on whichever title seems to best answer your needs to display the complete document.

Tip: If the selected document doesn't fully answer your questions, use the browser's back button to return to the list of titles and try another.

Simple Search

Simple search implies that the search should return documents that contain any expression entered in the search field.

The following table lists examples:

Use This Syntax

To Find Documents Containing ...

concurrent managers

the word "concurrent" or the word "managers"

"concurrent managers"

the phrase "concurrent managers"

Advanced Search

The advanced search feature contains these options:

All Words

Any Words

Boolean

All Words

The All Words option implies that the search should return documents that contain ALL of the expression entered in the search field. For example, if you enter the expression system administration, the system finds documents containing both "system" and "administration".

Any Words

The Any Words option implies that the search should return documents that contain ANY of the expression entered in the search field. For example, if you enter the expression system administration, the system finds documents containing either "system" or "administration".

Boolean

The Boolean option implies that the search should return documents based on the truth value of the expression entered in the search field. The values for the valid operators that you can use are shown in the following table:

Operator

Valid Values

And

AND, and, &, +

Or

OR, or, |

Not

NOT, not, -, ~

The following table lists examples:

Use This Syntax

To Find Documents Containing ...

"concurrent manager" & "profile options"

the phrases "concurrent manager" and "profile options"

"menu options" - "profile options"

the phrase "menu options" and not the phrase "profile options"

menu & menuitem

the words "menu" and "menuitem".

profile | options

the word "profile" or the word "options"

((profile & categories) ~ options)

the words "profile" and "categories" and not the word "options"

("concurrent manager" & (request submission))

the phrase "concurrent manager" and the words "request" and "submission"